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SOME DAY by DOUGLAS MALLOCH

First Line: WE KNOW THAT THERE IS SORROW
Last Line: AND LOSE THE LIGHT, AND THEN SOME DAY --

We know that there is sorrow,
We hear about defeat;
But that is all tomorrow,
Or someone down the street;
Yes, grief is something far away
It always seems, and then some day --

Some day the olden danger
Comes nearer to the door;
The shadow of a stranger
Appears upon the floor;
We had forgotten how to pray,
Forgotten God, and then some day --

Some day, somehow or other,
We need the old belief;
Let us remember, brother,
In joy as well as grief;
Lest we, perhaps, forget the way,
And lose the light, and then some day --



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